BIOGRAPHY

British bass, Alastair Miles is one of the UK’s most renowned singers returning regularly to the operatic stages and concert platforms of Europe, the USA and the Far East. His international career was launched in 1986 when he won the Decca Kathleen Ferrier Prize at the Wigmore Hall London. He is recognised for his stylistically wide repertoire, equally at home with music of the Baroque period as he is with the romanticism of Verdi and Wagner.

Alastair Miles appears regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where his roles have included Colline La bohème, Rodolfo La Sonnambula, Elmiro in Rossini’s Otello, Banquo Macbeth, Dom Juam de Sylva in Donizetti’s Dom Sebastien, Le Comte des Grieux Manon, Poliferno in Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe. For English National Opera he has performed the title role in Boito’s Mefistofele, Silva Ernani and Duke Alfonso Lucrezia Borgia; for Welsh National Opera Mephistopheles Faust, Fiesco Simon Boccanegra, Enrico Anna Bolena, and Talbot Maria Stuarda; for Opera North Mephistopheles La Damnation de Faust, Philip II Don Carlo, and his appearances for Glyndebourne Festival Opera include Pogner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Commendatore Don Giovanni, Fiesco Simon Boccanegra and Speaker Die Zauberflöte. He has also performed Claudio Agrippina for Opéra de Dijon and Opéra de Lille, Daland Der Fliegende Holländer for Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Philip II Don Carlo for the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Bertram Robert le Diable and Nourabad Les Pêcheurs de Perles for the Salerno Festival.

Alastair Miles is also a highly sought after concert artist and has appeared with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including Giulini, Muti, Harnoncourt, Chung, Rattle, Runnicles, Masur, Gergiev, Gardiner, Harding, Norrington, Davis and Dohnanyi.

In addition to his on-going relationship with Opera Rara, recording neglected 19th century Italian and French opera, Alastair Miles’s discography currently stands at over ninety recordings including his recently much acclaimed German Lieder, a recital disc of songs by Brahms and Wolf, for Signum Classics; a solo recital disc of Great Operatic Arias for Chandos; award winning recordings of Verdi’s Requiem (Philips) and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (Archiv) with Gardiner; Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Masur and the Israel Philharmonic for Teldec, and Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ with Ticciati for Linn Records.